Holy...
What the...
She had never seen anything like the monsters in front of her. This was not her mind playing tricks on her. She could hear the snarls. She could smell the matted wolf. It smelled like something dead that should have been buried long ago.
But the other thing, the one with the red eyes...
It was the thing she had seen the night of the storm. It had jumped over her the same way.
That couldn’t be real, but her mind told her it was.
She’d thought the red wolf was huge, but this thing was humongous! Its teeth were razor-sharp and could easily chomp off half her body without trying. In the reduced lighting in the woods, its dark grey fur looked as silky as the red wolf’s. And while she had never felt afraid of the red wolf, she was terrified of this one.
At least she k
